SUFFRAGISTS SING SPEECHES.
TO GET ABOUND THE LAW
Women suffragists who- were informed that they could not conduct their “doughnut campaign.” in Los Angelos partks if they delivered votes-for-wo-men speeches got around'the prohibitive ordinance by setting tlieir speeches to music and singing them. The opening of the “doughnut campaign,” as their picnic meetings are called, occurred in Hollenbeck Park under’ the; auspices of the Wage-Earn-ing Women’s Suffrage League. It was in effect a defiance of the Police and Park Board. ■ , , The women served doughnuts ana tea, and, under the leadership of Mrs. Frances Noel, sang their pleas for enfranchisement to the men guests. Every minute, the leaders said, they expected police to appear, , but .no khaki-clad minions of the law arrived; and the women expressed their belief that while speeches may be forbidden, musical pleas for votes in the city, parks are not to be considered cause for arrest.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3327, 20 September 1911, Page 7
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149SUFFRAGISTS SING SPEECHES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3327, 20 September 1911, Page 7
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